True crime stories & great mysteries

Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.


True crime stories

JFK assassination mystery

JFK assassination

American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...


Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby mystery

Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous American aviator Charles Lindbergh, was one of the first big trials that gathered massive media coverage. The 20-months-old...


Murder of Sir Jack Drummond mystery

Murder of Sir Jack Drummond

When distinguished British biochemist Sir Jack Drummond was found dead on the roadside in France, no one expected this case will gain international coverage and still, after 60 years...


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Great mysteries

Yeti - legendary snowman mystery

Yeti - legendary snowman

The Yeti is a legendary ape-like creature that supposedly lives in the high regions of the Himalayas. The first stories about meetings with yeti emerged when Europeans arrived in Tibet...


Disappearance of Flight MH 370 mystery

Disappearance of Flight MH 370

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading for Beijing in China. About 40 minutes later, just when it was leaving the Kuala Lumpur air traffic control area...


Glenn Miller disappearance mystery

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...


Isdal Woman mystery

Isdal Woman

On 29 November 1970, a man and his two daughters were hiking near Bergen in south-west Norway. The area was known as Isdalen (Ice Valley) or sometimes as Death Valley, due to the history...





Controversial theories

Korean Air Lines Flight 007 mystery

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...


JFK assassination mystery

JFK assassination

American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...


Glenn Miller disappearance mystery

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...


9/11 attacks mystery

9/11 attacks

Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...



Unexplained phenomena

High Rock event mystery

High Rock event

In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...


Ghost stories mystery

Ghost stories

Ghost stories are part of human culture - even in the Dark Ages, our predecessors believed that we’re not actually dying when our body dies. The spirit, the soul or some other form...


Beast of Gevaudan mystery

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...


Amityville horror house mystery

Amityville horror house

An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...



Crime and mystery movies

Black Coal, Thin Ice 2014 mystery movie

Black Coal, Thin Ice 2014

In 1999 dismembered body of coal worker is found scattered on different coal depots. Detective Zhang finds a suspect, who is killed in shoot-out. Five years later similar victim is found.


The Da Vinci Code 2006 mystery movie

The Da Vinci Code 2006

When Louvre curator is found in the museum dead with pentagram on his chest American professor of symbology becomes a prime suspect.


The Lady Vanishes 1938 mystery movie

The Lady Vanishes 1938

Passengers of a train get stuck in a mountain village due to avalanches that covered the tracks with snow. When they resume their journey, one of the passengers seems to be missing.


Blackwater 2023 mystery movie

Blackwater 2023

In 1971 two bodies were found in a tent in a secluded place in northern Sweden. Eighteen years later people are still looking for answers who killed them.



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